winter forage

Satira beamed proudly when Indigo smiled and confirmed that she had indeed remembered the correct uses and applications for valerian root. Yes, score one for the wolf-dog! Around them, Keelin and the girl she didn't know from the southern pack were also looking about for healing plants they could make use of. The Elysian wolf found willow bark, and the Fenmyrian found cattails—although maybe "finding" them was a bit of a stretch of the word, since they were all readily poking up out of the ice covering the lake. Still, credit where credit was due. Wasting no time, Tira bounded through the trenches in the deep snow her uncle was leaving in his wake to help her navigate the snow-covered fields. Making her way over towards the pebbly shores of the lake, Satira started to look around at some of the aquatic plants that sprung up from the ice, almost all of them frozen solid in place. Really, this expansion would've been significantly easier if they waited for the spring thaw, but she wasn't about to start questioning the decisions of their hosts. That wasn't her place.

Pushing through some dried tall grass and cattails, Satira found some dark green shoots of horsetail growing along the moist soils of the shore. Another helpful herb! Grinning to herself, the sable yearling rushed over and flexed her paws to extend her feline claws, using the razor sharp weapons to slice through the frozen stalks with some effort. "Got horsetail over here!" she shouted out to the group, gathering up a few stalks to take back with her. The horsetail would make good binding agents, but also contained a good amount of biotin to reinforce claws.

"Satira"